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WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 4 days ago
Selecting actions for resource-bounded information extraction using reinforcement learning
Given a database with missing or uncertain content, our goal is to correct and fill the database by extracting specific information from a large corpus such as the Web, and to d...
Pallika H. Kanani, Andrew K. McCallum
CHB
2011
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12 years 8 months ago
Web Wisdom: An essay on how Web 2.0 and Semantic Web can foster a global knowledge society
Admittedly this is a presumptuous title that should never be used when reporting on individual research advances. Wisdom is just not a scientific concept. In this case, though, w...
Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth
CORR
2008
Springer
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Information Acquisition and Exploitation in Multichannel Wireless Networks
A wireless system with multiple channels is considered, where each channel has several transmission states. A user learns about the instantaneous state of an available channel by ...
Sudipto Guha, Kamesh Munagala, Saswati Sarkar
DELOS
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Serendipitous Information Retrieval
The acquisition of information is generally thought to be deliberately sought using a search or query mechanism or by browsing or scanning an information space. People, however, f...
Elaine G. Toms
DAGSTUHL
2007
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Signalling Preferences in Interviewing Markets
The process of match formation in matching markets can be divided into three parts: information sharing, investments in information acquisition, and the formation of matches based...
Robin S. Lee, Michael A. Schwarz